Thanks for circulating the report, very interesting! It gives some
sense of what happens on a sprint, which I've always wondered. I'd
like to participate on one in future.
Well done all, and best regards,
Andreas
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:39:23 +1000 Jonathan Lange <jml at canonical.com>
wrote:
> I just sent this sprint report to the Bazaar mailing list. Forwarded
> here for your reading pleasure.
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jonathan Lange <jml at mumak.net>
> Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:44 PM
> Subject: Birmingham sprint report
> To: Bazaar <bazaar at lists.canonical.com>
>>> The first ever Bazaar sprint in the first ever Birmingham is well and truly
> over. Here's the low-down.
>> Attendees:
> Jonathan Lange (jml)
> Wouter van Heyst (LarstiQ)
> Andy Kilner (gnublade)
> Russel Winder (russel)
> Stephen Emslie (semslie)
> Szilveszter Farkas (phanatic)
>> The sprint went ran on the Friday and Saturday after EuroPython 2009.
>> As you might remember, the goal of the sprint was to work on cool UI stuff:
> bling, papercuts, little annoying fixes, simple obvious missing features etc.
>> We stuck pretty well to this goal. Here's roughly what got done:
>> * Fixed #217031, "bzr launchpad-login -v MYNAME" gives no feedback (jml)
>> * Fixed a tilde -> %7E URL translation glitch (gnublade)
>> * Released 1.16.1 for OS X & documented how to do it. (szi)
>> * Fixed up supported Python version info in bzr (russel)
>> * Provided a patch for bug #213185, tag conflicts do not change exit code.
> (gnublade)
>> * Fixed ugly exception being raised on network error in bug #247958 (jml)
>> * Submitted patch for #84659, it's been rejected but the bug has moved
> forward. (jml)
>> * Updated subvertpy ppa. (LarstiQ)
>>> And here are some things that we need your help with, still:
>> * Submitted RFC patch for LP API support. Still waiting on replies. (jml)
>> * Submitted RFC patch for fixing the URL that remote smart servers suggest
> for break-lock. The patch has had replies, but is still waiting on
> _something_ -- a firm "yes" perhaps? (LarstiQ)
>> * Worked on bug #308472, getting 'info' to show the server version. Not sure
> what state the bug is in now, I'm pretty sure Stephen sent a patch.
> (gnublade, semslie)
>> * I have "#183089 (gnublade)" but I have no idea what that means.
>> Apologies if I've missed anyone or anything. Please correct me if I have!
>> I also cheated a little and submitted a patch to Launchpad which will make the
> public API way more useful for Bazaar.
>> Some other things:
>> * It was particularly exciting for me to see Andy & Stephen dig into the
> details of Bazaar and get all the way to submitting patches.
>> * It would have been nice to have an easier way of finding easy bugs to fix.
> I sent an email to list about it, and I think it's been resolved (when
> tagging with 'easy', always explain how to fix the bug).
>> * I was a little surprised to notice that people are running Bazaar 1.13 by
> default, since that's the version of Bazaar that ships with Jaunty.
>> * At the EuroPython conference, Geoff Bache asked me about a patch of his
> that has been languishing without review. I couldn't find this patch on
> Launchpad or BundleBuggy, but then stumbled across bug 183831. There are
> 38 bugs that have patches[1].
>> * We had quite a few interruptions from people at other sprints who were
> interested in Bazaar or Launchpad.
>> * I regularly mispronounced Wouter's name as "Jelmer". I'm an idiot.
>> * The coffee was terrible and the beer was very tasty.
>>> I had a lot of fun. Thanks to the attendees and to the EuroPython organizers.
>> jml
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